pertures like wells, but empty.
Close to this was a ford to the eastern bank. The river has many
interruptions certainly, but yet in two days' ride we had seen a good
deal of smooth water for boating. At half-past one was reached the
village of _Abadiyeh_.

Near the village we saw people cutting twigs of tamarisk and willow. At
the village were large plantations of the kitchen vegetable, _Bamia_,
which is a _hibiscus_, (called _ochra_ in the West Indies,) the plants
four feet high, with bright yellow blossom. Near the regular houses were
suburb huts made of reeds. This is often seen along the Ghor; they are
tenanted by wanderers at certain seasons of the year.

There was a profusion of good wheat straw lying wasting upon the ground;
it is here too plentiful to be cared for.

We saw afterwards a low wall of masonry entirely crossing the Jordan, but
having now a broken aperture in the middle. In former times these
artificial works were common, and served to irrigate the lands on each
side. The river was never used for navigation.

At two o'clock we reached one well-known rendezvous, the old broken
bridge, popularly called "Mother of Arches." The ford was now low in
water. Here we rested under a neb'k tree; and on getting out the
luncheon, discovered that all our stores of bread, coffee, sugar, and
arrow-root had been soaked by the splashing of streams and fords that we
had this day encountered.

The horseman fell again to his prayers. Several Arabs from the Hauran
with their camels, crossed the Jordan while we were there.

Another hour took us to the baths of Tiberias; the heat very great, and
by our roadside there was a whole mountain with its dry yellow grass and
weeds on fire.

Near the south end of the lake are some palms growing wild. We
dismounted at a quarter to four.

* * * * *

Next day I ascended the hills to Safed, a well-known station. The place
is exceedingly healthy, enjoying the purest mountain air, as is evinced
by the healthy complexion of the numerous Jews residing there; and the
landscape views are both extensive and beautiful.

On the following day I undertook a few hours' excursion to _Kadis_
(Kedesh Naphtali), where Barak, son of Abinoam, and Deborah, collected
the forces of Zebulun and Naphtali, for marching to Mount Tabor against
Sisera. It was also one of the six cities of refuge for cases of
unintentional homicide, (Josh. xx. 7;) it lies to